Young Person's Substance Misuse Worker

Adferiad Recovery delivers a flexible and coordinated response to the exceptional circumstances faced by people with co-occurring mental health and substance use conditions and related issues. Vulnerable people facing complex life challenges need consistent and seamless support to ensure they remain engaged with vital health and wellbeing services – and to prevent them becoming disenfranchised and isolated.
Adferiad Recovery harnesses the talents and experience of long-established and leading Welsh charities CAIS, Hafal and WCADA. Our combined expertise in the fields of substance use, mental health, housing, criminal justice, and employment support enables Adferiad Recovery to meet the needs of our most vulnerable with a single, unified, and comprehensive approach.
Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday – Friday, possible weekend work
Salary: £23,365.24
Holidays: 25 days per year plus 8 public holidays (pro rata)
Based at: Builth Wells, Powys
Job Purpose:
This post will work as part of Adferiad Recovery’s Young People’s Substance Misuse Service in Powys, providing services to young people who are under 18 years of age (and those aged 16-24 transitioning to adult services), who are experiencing problems with drug and/or alcohol use. You will provide targeted and specialist interventions to support young people at increased risk of using substances and for those identified with a Substance Misuse problem, with the objective of preventing family breakdown and helping to address and overcome barriers in accessing education, employment, and training.
The team aspire to create equality of access and availability of services for those with severe Substance Misuse and those with more recreational use; for those for whom abstinence is the goal, as well as those for whom harm reduction approaches are more suitable. The young people’s provision operates separately from the adult’s service which are delivered by our partners at Kaleidoscope, allowing for a specialist provision, for the purposes of safeguarding and in offering specialist services.
Adferiad Recovery welcomes applications from everyone with the right to work in the UK, and values diversity in the workplace.
All employees are required to act inclusively to encourage, promote, and cultivate our values, (such as rights affirming and cultural diversity).
Working towards becoming a Rights Affirming organisation, we actively encourage applications from people where the Person Specification calls for a particular qualification or experience, we will consider waiving these requirements if an applicant who could not achieve them because of a disability can demonstrate he/she would be capable of performing well in the job and fulfils the criteria in other respects.
We are a living wage employer.
FOR MORE INFORMATION A FULL PERSON SPECIFICATION AND HOW TO APPLY, PLEASE GO TO OUR WEBSITE: http://adferiadrecovery.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=866aee21-c529-4931-bce7-dde531f96f62